# Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2017, SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program, SNF Quality Reporting Program, and SNF Payment Models Research
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2016-08-05 · Effective 2016-10-01 · 81 FR 51970
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-18113
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 51970
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 413
- **Publication date:** 2016-08-05
- **Effective date:** 2016-10-01
- **HHS docket:** CMS-1645-F
## Abstract

This final rule updates the payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2017. In addition, it specifies a potentially preventable readmission measure for the Skilled Nursing Facility Value- Based Purchasing Program (SNF VBP), and implements requirements for that program, including performance standards, a scoring methodology, and a review and correction process for performance information to be made public, aimed at implementing value-based purchasing for SNFs. Additionally, this final rule includes additional polices and measures in the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP). This final rule also responds to comments on the SNF Payment Models Research (PMR) project.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/08/05/2016-18113/medicare-program-prospective-payment-system-and-consolidated-billing-for-skilled-nursing-facilities)
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